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On Digital, Paper, Voice Journaling, and the Modern Commonplace Book A few weeks ago, someone on Reddit asked this question (paraphrased): "Does anyone use Day One alongside a physical journal? I like both, but I don't want random journal entries scattered everywhere." Of course I had to share my experience and I realised that my answer wasn't really about Day One or journaling apps or notebooks. It was about creating a single place where the story of my life lives. The word of the day (well,…
I currently use three laptops: a work-issued Windows machine that I use every day, a personal 17-inch Windows laptop that I used at my previous job (and subsequently bought from my employer when I left the company more than five years ago), and my trusty MacBook Air. My Mac is a 2017 MacBook Air - Intel i7, 8GB of RAM, and a 500GB SSD. It’s almost nine years old now. The battery gives me a few hours at best, it’s occasionally sluggish, and it doesn’t support multiple external monitors the way…
It’s been over a month since my last blog post. I had decided to step away for a bit and focus on the physical world around me, as I felt like I was living too much inside my digital artifacts. And once you step away from writing for a while, it slowly becomes easier and easier not to write anything at all. Every now and then I’ll come across a topic and think, this would make a good blog post, and then immediately stop myself from writing it. Part of that is probably the thought of, who…
Lately I've realised that even though I'm barely on social media, my life still feels 95% digital. I don't post on LinkedIn. My Instagram account mostly exists so I can...
Lately I've realised that even though I'm barely on social media, my life still feels 95% digital. I don't post on LinkedIn. My Instagram account mostly exists so I can open links people send me when I absolutely have to. I only keep a fake Facebook account for Marketplace and I use my real account (I've had it since the beginning of Facebook and all my friends live there so it stays) for Messenger only. But there is more than social media to occupy our time now. My days are still full of…
Last week I exported my entire Day One journal for 2025 (just the text file) and ran it through ChatGPT, mostly out of curiosity. None of the conclusions were surprising...
